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GOP Senate Passes Olson Nomination
By JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans won speedy Senate approval of Theodore Olson as
the nation's solicitor general on Thursday, confirming him before losing
control to Democrats who remember him as the lawyer who helped President
Clinton (news - web sites)'s foes and got Al Gore (news - web sites)'s
recount stopped.
Senators voted 51-47 to make Olson the government's advocate before the
Supreme Court, only hours after Vermont Sen. Jim Jeffords (news - bio -
voting record) defected from the GOP. Jeffords action will throw control of
the Senate to the Democrats.
The Democrats had opposed Olson's nomination for weeks but agreed to let it
come to a vote before they take control of the chamber.
``He deserves this job. He deserves not having people play politics with this
position, and in my opinion will make a great solicitor general of the United
States,'' said outgoing Senate Judiciary Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, in
Thursday's debate.
Sen. Charles Schumer (news - bio - voting record), D-N.Y., who sits on the
committee, said the Democrats didn't have the votes to block the nomination
on the floor and probably would not filibuster.
``Judges are one thing, but a president's nominees are different,'' he said.
Outgoing Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., indicated the
Republicans would have moved forward with Olson on Thursday regardless of
Jeffords' action.
``It's not being driven by these other events, but time had lapsed and we
were ready to go forward with it,'' he said.
Hatch said Democrat Patrick Leahy of Vermont - likely to be the next
Judiciary chairman - told him he would ask other Democratic leaders to allow
a vote on Olson instead of holding him up.
``It would be a very, very bad thing if they didn't follow his
recommendation,'' Hatch said.
Olson has been a Democratic foe for years, but is most recently known as the
lawyer who successfully argued the Florida election case in front of the
Supreme Court for George W. Bush.
Democrats also point out his ties with The American Spectator, a conservative
magazine that conducted an investigation called the ``Arkansas Project'' into
possible past wrongdoing Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton (news - web sites).
Olson also represented Arkansas figure David Hale, another Clinton critic, in
1996 when Hale was called to testify to the Senate Whitewater Committee, and
assisted Paula Jones' legal team in her sexual harassment suit against
Clinton.
Olson works in Washington for the Los Angeles-based law firm of Gibson, Dunn
& Crutcher where his partners have included President Reagan's attorney
general, William French Smith, and former Solicitor General Kenneth Starr,
who as an independent counsel investigated Clinton.
Olson's wife, former federal prosecutor Barbara Olson, wrote ``Hell to Pay,''
a book critical of Hillary Clinton (news - web sites).
Democrats held up Olson's nomination four times in the Judiciary Committee
(news - web sites), questioning his ties to anti-Clinton groups, and then
unanimously voted against him to deadlock the committee tally.
Lott pulled Olson's nomination from committee to bring it straight to the
Senate floor. Under this year's power-sharing arrangement in the evenly
divided Senate, the majority and minority leaders can do so.
It was the first time - and likely the last - this procedure will be used,
now that the Senate is headed to Democratic control.
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